I don't think my intelligence is naturally analytic or political.
From Seamus Heaney
The faking of feelings is a sin against the imagination.
The gift of writing is to be self-forgetful, to get a surge of inner life or inner supply or unexpected sense of empowerment, to be afloat, to be out of yourself.
Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained.
I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible.
In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself.
The experiment of poetry, as far as I am concerned, happens when the poem carries you beyond where you could have reasonably expected to go.
In Northern Ireland, helicopters are not usually used to promote poetry.
If you go into an underground train in London - probably anywhere, but chiefly in London - there's that sense of almost entering a ghostly dimension. People are very still and quiet; they don't exchange many pleasantries.
A person from Northern Ireland is naturally cautious.
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